Meren virsi, Op.11 No.2 (Kuula, Toivo)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	1
Composition Year	1909
Genre Categories	Secular hymns; Hymns; For 2 mixed choruses; Scores featuring mixed chorus; For unaccompanied chorus; Finnish language

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Publisher. Info.	Ohjelmistoa No.14 Helsinki: Suomen Laulu, 1916.
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Work Title	Meren virsi
Alternative. Title
Composer	Kuula, Toivo
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No.	Op.11 No.2
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.	ITK 41
Key	E minor
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	1
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.	1909
First Performance.	1910-03-28 in Helsinki Suomen Laulu - 10th anniversary, H. Klemetti (conductor)
First Publication.	1916 - Helsinki: Suomen Laulu, in Ohjelmistoa (No.14, with optional piano reduction)
Librettist	Eino Leino (1878-1926)
Language	Finnish
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Romantic
Piece Style	Romantic
Instrumentation	Mixed (double) choir a cappella

The Giant of Finnish National Romantic choral literature. Regarded as impossible or far too difficult for any choir by Kuula's teacher M. Labey in the Paris Conservatory and conductor Klemetti (who had commissioned the work for the choir's 10th anniversary). Pretty soon after the premiere Klemetti insisted on an instrumental accompaniment which Kuula supplied some time after 1910. The piano part is almost completely the same as vocal part reduced to 2 staffs.